"I now descend to the work... the Harmonies... [H]e who condemns the itch to devise new things and the presumption to profess new and grandiose things will find in the epilogue to the Fifth Book that which he will mark critically. For here the sun-spots and little flames are brought forward as evidence of there being exhalations from the sun which are analogous to exhalations from the Earth: here things corresponding to the generation of animals... in the planets—here the confines of the mysteries of Christian religion are touched: we knock at the doors of the science of the , of , of the idolatry of the Persians, and of those who worship the sun as god—as the interjection of frequent warnings does not dissimulate. ...[R]eason ...leads "from the Muses to Apollo": nevertheless, since the other parts of the work are established by means of their proper demonstrations, the chapter, or epilogue, can be considered as cut off from the rest."
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Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae
' was an astronomy book on the published by Johannes Kepler in the period 1618 to 1621. The first volume (books I–III) was printed in 1618, the second (book IV) in 1620, and the third (books V–VII) in 1621. It was translated from the Latin in 1939 by .
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